Elevated sympathetic nervous system activity in patients with recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis with active disease

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-70

  Dekkers, J Caroline ^a,b   Geenen, Rinie ^a   Godaert, Guido L R ^a   Bijlsma, Johannes W J ^c   van Doornen, Lorenz J P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Parasympathetic; Pre ejection period; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia; Rheumatoid arthritis; Sympathetic

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PREEJECTION PERIOD; HUMAN; JOINT STIFFNESS; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 1242277789     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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